"Look, Narrator! Is that a Speedo up there?"
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 05, 2005 11:50:34 am PST #4485 of 10002
What is even happening?
Alibelle - Mar 05, 2005 12:12:42 pm PST #4486 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
The Buffy quizzes never work for me. I most identify with (earlier) Buffy and (early) Willow, and yet I somehow always end up with Xander or Tara. I didn't even particularly like Tara until right before she died, and had managed to find a backbone.
Emily - Mar 05, 2005 12:26:16 pm PST #4487 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I don't get the "caught" option--unless they just mean vowel-wise, because there's no "n" sound in caught, and that vowel sound is aw, where aunt has ah.
Pretty sure they just mean the vowel sound. I pronounce "aunt" two different ways, and the sound in "caught" is probably the best approximation to one of them -- sort of like the vowel sound in "odd", actually.
Steph L. - Mar 05, 2005 12:34:36 pm PST #4488 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I still don't understand how "caught" and "cot" could sound different. I sat here saying them over and over, trying to exaggerate the vowels, and they still sound the same.
For the record, I tried it with "haughty" and "hottie," and those sound the same, too.
Katie M - Mar 05, 2005 12:37:35 pm PST #4489 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Caught is an awwwwww sound, low down in the back of my mouth. Cot is an ahhhhhhh sound, just as far back but higher up.
Narrator - Mar 05, 2005 12:54:58 pm PST #4490 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Maybe Topic!Cindy. But what care I for a flying Speedo. It lacks a certain .. Xanderness up there. Not to mention it's dry.
Tom Scola - Mar 05, 2005 1:03:42 pm PST #4491 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I still don't understand how "caught" and "cot" could sound different. I sat here saying them over and over, trying to exaggerate the vowels, and they still sound the same.
Poor vowel-deprived Teppy.
juliana - Mar 05, 2005 1:09:49 pm PST #4492 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Poor vowel-deprived Teppy.
I think I've bogarted all the vowels in the Midwest with my liquid "u"s and just generally trying to sound more like a Brit and less like a Norske/Swede. Sorry, Tep!
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2005 1:18:19 pm PST #4493 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I still don't understand how "caught" and "cot" could sound different. I sat here saying them over and over, trying to exaggerate the vowels, and they still sound the same.
Strangely, I was just sittinghere wondering how "caught" and "cot" could possibly sound the same.
Also, I scored as "Dixie", even though I have never even been further south than Philedelphia and my family is either from a) New England b) French Canada or c) Italy
Susan W. - Mar 05, 2005 1:21:05 pm PST #4494 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
76% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
I'm kinda surprised that my "y'all," "roly-poly," and "rolling" usages apparently dominate over my "soda," "mischief night," and ability to distinguish between "caught" and "cot."
Caught is the vowel in "Aw," as in, "Aw, ain't that cute?"
Cot is the vowel in "Ah," as in, "Ah, I get it."
And before I forget what I came here for, congratulations, Rio!